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White Papers
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New Storage Buying Criteria for Shared Virtual Infrastructure
You can’t make the best storage decisions for your business if you’re not asking the right questions. This new RFP template makes it easy. It reflects today’s IT reality and includes the key criteria to consider so you can position your organization for the future.
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A Customer Dilemma: Faster Tape or Disk-to-Disk Backup
This report takes a look at a step-by-step approach in assessing your backup environments to evaluate and select the best products to get the job done today and prepare for the future.
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Achieving Network Convergence: Deploying FCoE into the Data Center
This paper provides a summary of FCoE and addresses many questions about the technology, particularly how enterprises can make the move to FCoE using a gradual, phased approach. It concludes with an introduction of Brocade and NetApp FCoE solutions.
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Addressing Data Liability In Remote and Branch Offices: Edge to Core Data Protection with NetApp
Learn about strategies for enterprise data protection from the data center to remote office environments.
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Architectural Considerations for Archive and Compliance Solutions
When it comes to archiving and compliance, IT directors have a choice to make: implement independent archive and compliance architectures for individual applications, or implement one architecture that consolidates e-mail, file, database, ERP, and ECM data on a single platform. Download this paper to read about the case for a comprehensive and unified architecture for archive and compliance solutions.
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Case Studies
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Databasement Builds Portfolio of Service Offerings on NetApp Service-Oriented Infrastructure
Learn how Databasement built its multi-vendor data center architecture to reduce TCO, manage data growth and meet service level agreements. For Databasement, which was among the first companies to deliver storage as a service (StaaS), the top priority was a storage platform that would enable the company to build a profitable business model. First, the storage technology had to be unified and streamline backup, recovery, and disaster recovery (DR) across a wide range of different customer environments. To lower costs, Databasement had to use standard IP networking, support high utilization, and manage the infrastructure with modest IT esources. Incremental scalability was another important requirement.
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Business Case Study: Assessing Storage Efficiency within NetApp’s Data Centers
This case study looks at ways NetApp IT was able to put into practices what the company has been saying to its customers for some time: That the use of NetApp storage offers such efficiency that it can save companies significantly more money and management time than the use of an alternate storage system.
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Case Study: Exchange 2007 on VMware and NetApp
Unity Builders Group recently went through a migration to Exchange 2007 and VMware VI3. Read this case study to learn about the migration process and the advantages of running Exchange 2007 on VMware and NetApp storage.
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Case Study: Lessons Learned with Microsoft Hyper-V and NetApp
In this case study, learn how the flexible disaster recovery available through virtualization using Microsoft Hyper-V can allow applications and services to more smoothly fail over to another local node, and replicate back and forth to a remote data center, thereby preventing a widespread disaster to save your organization time and money.
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Case Study: Tucson Electric Power Saves with Server and Storage Virtualization
Find out how NetApp and VMware enable customers to improve disaster preparedness while saving money. Today, at Tucson Electric Power, almost 90 percent of servers are virtual, 100 percent of daily backups can now be performed within a 24-hour window, disaster preparedness is greatly improved, regulatory requirements are met, and the IT infrastructure is ready for the future. Download this report to learn more.
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Podcasts
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CTO Perspective on Virtualizing with NetApp, Cisco and VMware
Brian Denton, CTO of ExamWorks, discusses his organization’s technology solution that utilizes NetApp, VMware, Cisco, and secure multi-tenancy. He also explains ExamWorks’ strategy of virtualizing Microsoft applications and using a virtual desktop infrastructure.
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Trends in Virtualization and Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Podcast
Messaging is a particularly fruitful area for virtualization because of scalability issues and the desirability of using single-point address references and administrative controls. An update to the messaging infrastructure can be seen as a potentially critical part of the overall refresh cycle in information technology.
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Webcasts
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Beyond Backup: Disk-to-Disk Comes of Age
Backup and recovery of data is consistently rated as one of the top concerns of interviewed companies. Patrick Rogers, VP of Partners and Product Marketing for NetApp, discusses unique approaches and vision for solving backup and recovery needs for enterprise environments.
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Disk-to-Disk Backup and Recovery: A Global Customer Analysis
This webcast provides a global analysis of backup and recovery issues facing IT decision makers as well as a detailed review of their adoption patterns around tape and key disk-to-disk technologies.
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E-Mail Archiving for Lotus Domino: Simplifying Content Archiving and Compliance
With the upcoming changes in the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and the continued emphasis on compliance, IT professionals today are faced with managing an increased e-mail volume, and have to navigate a minefield of rules and regulations related to records management and electronic discovery.
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Gartner Webcast on Demand: Considerations and Best Practices for Virtualizing Business-Critical Apps
Join the experts from featured analyst firm, Gartner, Inc., and opinion leaders from NetApp, as they discuss the benefits your organization can realize when you consider storage as part of your virtualization projects. Learn more in this new program now.
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Optimize Your Business Applications with a Server-to-Storage Virtualized Infrastructure
In this webcast, NetApp and VMware discuss how joint solutions expand the benefits of virtualization from server-to-storage to meet the most demanding server and storage needs, delivering greater performance, resource utilization, and flexibility. This webcast also features a customer success story and how solutions from NetApp and VMware were leveraged to simplify deployment and management of the IT infrastructure.
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Survey Results
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Total Cost Comparison: NetApp vs. EMC Solutions for Windows File Services Consolidation
Mercer Management Consulting compares the cost of acquiring, deploying, operating, and managing NetApp FAS and EMC Celerra environments. The report is based on actual cost data provided by network storage administrators and IT managers from mid-sized and large enterprises across various industries in Europe and North America.
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eWeek Podcasts
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NetApp Gets Thin, Provisioning
In this eWEEK podcast, Mike Vizard talks to Jay Kidd, senior vice president and GM for the Emerging Products Group at NetApp, about the company`s latest technology and why NetApp wants customers to buy less storage.
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Research Reports
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E-Mail Servers and Virtualization
Learn how virtualizing production e-mail servers can lower costs, improve management, and offer better resiliency to meet the business and technical needs of your organization.
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Forrester: Server Virtualization, Q3 2008
Forrester’s IT infrastructure and operations team answered 220 inquiries on data centers, servers, and virtual appliances in 2008, 72 were specifically in regard to server virtualization. If you are considering or are in the process of implementing this study could make all the difference by showing you which questions you too should be asking.
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Gartner: Hosted Virtual Desktops Are the Catalyst Behind Changing How Organizations Manage Storage
Hosted virtual desktops (HVDs) will oblige organizations in provisioning significantly more storage for end-user data. As such, the expected growth in storage needs will likely force a re-evaluation of current tools, budgets, support and processes associated with PC data.
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IDC Expert ROI Spotlight
This research paper outlines how the Pennsylvania Office of the Attorney General realized a 202% ROI by using NetApp solutions to reduce infrastructure costs, increase IT staff efficiency and increase user productivity through simplification and virtualization of their SAN environment.
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IT Perspectives on NetApp SnapVault Disk-to-Disk Vs. Traditional Tape-Based Backup Solutions
Download this exclusive article to gain insight on why a NetApp SnapVault backup system is 54% less expensive than a similar tape-based backup solution over a typical backup product lifecycle.
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Reviews
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Big Storage, Small Price
Netapp Storevault S500 is easy to set up. (eWEEK Review)
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Encryption: No Excuses
Network Appliance`s Decru DataFort FC1020 security appliance raises the performance bar for tape encryption appliances. (eWEEK Review)
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NetApp Joins D2D Backup Race
Network Appliance adds capable virtual tape library systems to storage repertoire. (eWEEK Review)
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Technology Briefs
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Combining Deduplication and Vmware Disaster Recovery: Cascading Savings Improves Cost Effectiveness
See how applying deduplication to VMware simplifies DR by reducing storage and bandwidth requirements. Plus, get tips on how to leverage your DR data.
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Deduplication Comes of Age
Advanced Single Instance Storage (A-SIS) deduplication can help you reduce storage consumption up to 95%. A behind the scenes look at how this free technology leverages the NetApp WAFL file system to conserve disk space while keeping system overhead low.
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Enabling and Delivering Compliance with Virtualization in the Data Center
Virtualization is growing increasingly popular as a tool for enterprise data centers and IT departments. If every department is sharing the same computer, storage, and network resources, how does an IT manager ensure that sensitive data stays isolated and safe?
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Key Considerations When Planning a Virtual Desktop Deployment
If your company is like most, you’ve probably ridden out the last few years of tough economic times by holding off on many IT purchases. Today, it’s quite common for companies to have three-year-old (or older) desktop computers running Microsoft Windows XP. Making a desktop choice that reduces operational costs makes sense in today’s still-tight economy.
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Tech Analyses
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NetApp and VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3: Storage Best Practices
NetApp has been providing advanced storage features to VMware ESX solutions since the product began shipping in 2001. During that time, NetApp has developed operational guidelines for the FAS systems and ESX Server. This technical report reviews the best practices for implementing VMware Virtual Infrastructure on NetApp fabric-attached storage (FAS) systems.
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NetApp and Microsoft Virtualization: Storage Best Practices
This technical report provides guidelines and best practices for integrated architectures and implementations of Microsoft server virtualization technologies with NetApp storage solutions. Learn how NetApp technologies are important to achieving a cost-effective, operationally efficient, flexible, and environment-friendly integrated storage, data protection, and business continuance solution.
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NetApp: Why Not De-duplicate All Data?
Download this exclusive report to learn how NetApp deduplication can be applied to all storage tiers, including primary application data.
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eWeek Slide Shows
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eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: NetApp StoreVault S500
This slideshow shows the features of the StoreVault S500 and what can be created by Managers on this device.
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Articles
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NetApp: How Safe is Deduplication?
Deduplication is hot, but can you really count on it at restore time? Find out the two essential criteria for assessing the safety of the technology before you commit by downloading this article.
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NetApp: Tackle the Top Three VMware Backup Challenges
Achieve optimum data protection from VMware by eliminating risk, accelerating performance and reducing complexity. Learn about recommended best practice guidelines for realizing these goals and how NetApp empowers organizations with VMware environments.
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Solve Your Top Oracle Data Management Problems
Find out how to deploy NetApp SnapManager for Oracle (SMO) to simplify and even automate data protection, recovery and cloning across both primary and secondary storage. To begin, this article describes how to use SMO self-service data protection to delegate the ability to perform these tasks to DBAs or others in your organization so that you don't have to be directly involved in every database-related operation on NetApp storage.
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Tech OnTap Article: Lessons on Deploying Hyper-V R2 and NetApp
Learn about the best storage configurations for Hyper-V, NetApp’s virtualization “sweet spot,” and Avanade’s firsthand experience with two much-anticipated R2 features: Cluster Shared Volumes and Live Migration.
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Top Five Hyper-V Best Practices
NetApp best practices cover important new features of Microsoft HyperV as well as lessons learned from numerous deployments. Learn how to configure networks, set appropriate iGroups and LUN types, avoid alignment problems, and configure CSVs.
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